About the Authors
- Jinseon Jeong
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Affiliations Biomedical Translational Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea, Department of Functional Genomics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea
- Young-Jun Kim
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Affiliation Biomedical Translational Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea
- Sun Young Yoon
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Affiliation ENZYCHEM Lifesciences, KAIST-ICC, Daejeon 305–732, Republic of Korea
- Yong-Jae Kim
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Affiliation Biomedical Translational Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea
- Joo Heon Kim
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon 302–120, Republic of Korea
- Ki-Young Sohn
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Affiliation ENZYCHEM Lifesciences, KAIST-ICC, Daejeon 305–732, Republic of Korea
- Heung-Jae Kim
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Affiliation ENZYCHEM Lifesciences, KAIST-ICC, Daejeon 305–732, Republic of Korea
- Yong-Hae Han
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Affiliation ENZYCHEM Lifesciences, KAIST-ICC, Daejeon 305–732, Republic of Korea
- Saeho Chong
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Affiliation ENZYCHEM Lifesciences, KAIST-ICC, Daejeon 305–732, Republic of Korea
- Jae Wha Kim
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* E-mail: wjkim@kribb.re.kr
Affiliations Biomedical Translational Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea, Department of Functional Genomics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305–806, Republic of Korea
Competing Interests
Enzychem Lifesciences has developed a patented method to synthesize PLAG in a massive scale, and tried to find its applications. Enzychem Lifesciences is developing a therapeutic for the treatment of allergic asthma based on the data from this research. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ Young-Jun Kim SYY JWK. Performed the experiments: JJ Young-Jun Kim Yong-Jae Kim JHK. Analyzed the data: JJ Young-Jun Kim JWK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KYS HJK YHH SC. Wrote the paper: JJ Young-Jun Kim JWK.